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Jeopardy

Test your knowledge of geological evidence with this fun and educative Jeopardy-style game. Categories include Plate Tectonics, Sea-Floor Spreading, Vocabulary, Weather & Erosion, and Contour Maps.

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Jeopardy

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  1. Geological Evidence Jeopardy T. Trimpe 2006 htp://sciencespot.net

  2. Contestants Don’t Forget...

  3. Although they give answers in the form of questions on the TV show, you do not need to do this.

  4. Plate Tectonics Sea-Floor Spreading Vocabulary Weather & Erosion Contour Maps 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500 500

  5. Plate Tectonics for $100 A divergent boundary is where the plates move ______________ from each other.

  6. Away Back toGame

  7. Plate Tectonics for $200 A plate boundary where the plates move together or crust is destroyed as one plate dives under is called a(n) ________________ boundary.

  8. Convergent Back toGame

  9. Plate Tectonics for $300 Plate boundaries that slide against each other often form faults are called a(n) _________ boundary.

  10. Transform Back toGame

  11. Plate Tectonics for $400 When two continental plates collide or converge _____________ are formed.

  12. Good Answer! Mountains Back toGame

  13. Plate Tectonics for $500 What causes the plates motion and where does this happen?

  14. Convection currents in the upper mantle cause the plates to move. Back toGame

  15. Sea-Floor Spreading for $100 The process in which molten material adds new oceanic crust to the sea floor.

  16. Sea-floor spreading Back toGame

  17. Sea-Floor Spreading for $200 What are the two types of crust?

  18. Oceanic and Continental Back toGame

  19. Sea-Floor Spreading for $300 Which crust is the most dense?

  20. Oceanic Back toGame

  21. Sea-Floor Spreading for $400 What occurs when continental and ocean crust collide? (what is the process called?)

  22. Subduction Back toGame

  23. Sea-Floor Spreading for $500 What are the three ways plates interact?

  24. Transform, Divergent, Convergent Back toGame

  25. Vocabulary for $100 What are the remains of once living organisms called?

  26. Fossils  Back toGame

  27. Vocabulary for $200 A person who studies fossils is a….

  28. Paleontologist Back toGame

  29. Vocabularyfor $300 The name of the single land mass that broke apart 225 million years ago into what is now our continents.

  30. Pangaea Back toGame

  31. Vocabulary for $400 The large pieces that the Earth’s lithosphere is broken into are called…

  32. Plates Back toGame

  33. Vocabulary for $500 A break or crack in the earths lithosphere along which rocks move is a….

  34. Fault Back toGame

  35. Weather and Erosion for $100 The cycle which has caused the continents to change shape is what cycle?

  36. W-W-W Weathering Back toGame

  37. Weather and Erosion for $200 What are the three steps in the weathering cycle?

  38. Weathering Erosion Deposition Back toGame

  39. Weather and Erosion for $300 The process by which water, wind, ice or gravity moves fragments of rock and soil is….

  40. Erosion Back toGame

  41. Weather & Erosion for $400 Give an entire example of the weathering cycle.

  42. Many possible answers… Back toGame

  43. Weather and Erosion for $500 What were the last two continents to break apart?

  44. South America And Africa Back toGame

  45. Contour Maps for $100 What do contour maps tell us about landforms?

  46. Their Elevation Back toGame

  47. Contour Maps for $200 When lines are really close together, what does it mean?

  48. The area is steep. Back toGame

  49. Contour Maps for $300 What color are highways on a contour map?

  50. Red Back toGame

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